James Buchan (ePass) · Tirtho Dasgupta (Nirmanaa)
UX Edinburgh marks World Usability Day with two founders who have built public-good products, talking about what it actually took. James Buchan, founder and CEO of ePass, traces the route…
Founders
Hosted by Edinburgh Royal Bank Accelerator
When
Tuesday 15 December 2026
9:30am – 4:30pm
Where
Edinburgh Royal Bank Accelerator
142-144 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4EQ
Price
free
A full-day working session for founders in the messy middle: too big to run on gut feel and a spreadsheet, not yet set up to grow without breaking. You work on your own business and numbers all day: commercial frameworks from big consumer brands cut down for founders, the metrics that matter, what investors check before they back you, commercial finance versus accounting, supply chain for scale, and where AI can find margin now.
Lucy Henderson and Rachel Steven, co-founders of Fractional Folk, run it. Between them: 40-plus years at Heineken, Diageo, AG Barr, C&C Group and P&G. Lucy chairs Investing Women Angels. 09:30 to 16:30.
Free, part of the Royal Bank Accelerator's She Scales programme on Princes Street. Register on Eventbrite.
a full day of hands-on time with two operators who've run big brands and now back founders. Best for founders with revenue who are starting to feel scaling pain.
Lucy Henderson · Co-founder, Fractional Folk
Rachel Steven · Co-founder, Fractional Folk
Edinburgh Royal Bank Accelerator, 142-144 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4EQ
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Tuesday 15 December 2026
9:30am – 4:30pm
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Edinburgh Royal Bank Accelerator
142-144 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4EQ
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Lucy Henderson
Co-founder, Fractional Folk
Rachel Steven
Co-founder, Fractional Folk
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